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Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Natural Sciences, Science

4.6 • 44.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2012

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Pain is a fundamental part of life, and often a very lonely part. Doctors want to understand their patients' pain, and we all want to understand the suffering of our friends, relatives, or spouses. But pinning down another person's hurt is a slippery business.

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0:00.0	Wait, you're listening.
0:01.1	Okay.
0:02.4	All right.
0:03.6	Okay.
0:05.0	All right.
0:06.4	You're listening to Radio Lab.
0:09.4	Radio Lab.
0:10.1	Shorts.
0:11.5	From W. N.Y.
0:14.0	C.
0:14.7	See?
0:15.0	Yes.
0:16.5	And NPR.
0:19.1	All right.
0:19.9	Three, two, one.
0:20.6	Hey, I'm Chad I boom rod. Okay. I'm Robert Krollwich. You're cheery today. I was cheery. This is Radio Lab. And this is our podcast version. Yes, and today on the podcast, stay in that cheery frame of mind. Okay. Because we're going to talk about pain today. So here's the quandary. It is really hard to put words to pain.
0:41.4	Like to describe to somebody, I have this pain in my back and it feels like a, like, ah, like,
0:47.0	oh, it's really hard. It's like, it's really difficult to describe to someone in a way that would
0:50.8	let them feel it too. It's like one of these classic empathy barriers, right?
0:56.9	That's true. But if you could quantify it, measure it, if I could know exactly numerically
1:03.6	what you're going through, maybe that would help. Maybe we could be better friends.
1:08.9	If you could, do you think you could?
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